About the Exhibition

Please note: Exhibition now closed.

Exhibits included uniforms, paintings, posters, photographs, film and personal memorabilia from the Museum's collection and from major museums and archives in the USA, China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and many other countries.

Exhibition highlights included:

• the pistol carried by Sergeant Major Flora Sandes in Serbia during the First World War
• a diary kept by Nurse Edith Cavell, executed for espionage in 1915
• a camisole worn by a survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania
• Marlene Dietrich's Second World War uniform
• Amy Johnson's flying tunic
• a camera used by the photographer Lee Miller
• the George Cross posthumously awarded to the secret agent Violette Szabo
• a wedding dress worn by a prisoner who married the British soldier who liberated her from Belsen.

An accompanying audio programme enabled visitors to listen to women describing their experiences in letters, diaries and tape-recorded reminiscences, ranging from a nurse on the Western Front to a widow in present-day Rwanda.